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food and drink

AI can count a meal’s calories based on images from a wearable camera

Technology

AI can count a meal’s calories based on images from a wearable camera

Dietary research can be automated with chest-mounted cameras that feed images of meals and leftovers to algorithms that can identify food and estimate how many calories it contains

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pasta

Technology

Flat pasta that morphs into 3D shapes when cooked saves on packaging

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A single pint of beer contains up to 2 million bubbles

Physics

A single pint of beer contains up to 2 million bubbles

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coffee plant

Environment

'Lost' coffee plant can resist climate change and tastes just as good

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chocolate bars

Humans

People expect chocolate to taste bitter if it is in black packaging

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blue ice cream

Chemistry

New kind of blue found in cabbage could replace synthetic food dye

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How to tenderise meat with mouth-watering marinades

Life

How to tenderise meat with mouth-watering marinades

Regulars

Not so vanilla: The mission to spice up our favourite flavour

Life

Not so vanilla: The mission to spice up our favourite flavour

Features

Food allergies could soon become a thing of the past – here's why

Health

Food allergies could soon become a thing of the past – here's why

Comment

How to make fabulous pizza using slow science

Humans

How to make fabulous pizza using slow science

One top trick to making great pizza at home means starting up to five days before you eat it. It’s all down to the science of fermentation, says Sam Wong

Regulars

Environment

Over one-sixth of all food produced ends up being thrown in the bin

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Environment

Lab-grown meat now mimics muscle fibres like those found in steak

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Health

What you eat is influenced by the food choices of people you dine with

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Health

Is MSG bad for you or is mass aversion to it just a cultural oddity?

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